bramling
Veteran Member
True. I suppose you could put in a law limiting how long parliamentary sovereignty could be suspended in the name of 'emergency powers'. But you couldn't stop parliament giving that limit up.
We have a law that if a petition receives a certain number of signatures, it has to get a debate in parliament. If we really believed in democracy, we'd give a threshold at which the petition triggered a legally binding referendum (would be constitutionally repealable by parliament of course, butt it would be tricky for them to do).
The thought of a referendum fills me with horror. “Would you like 15 months being paid 80% salary in return for loosely staying at home through the winter months?”. Lockdown it is, then!
A starting point is to look at the emergency powers used over the last year to avoid measures being properly debated.